international migration

• on a global scale, uneven development leads to unequal flows of people between places. some migrants move voluntarily in search of a better life whereas others are forced to flee persecution or disasters
• despite their low incomes, many people in LICs are finding out about technology spreading and in 2015 there were 7 mobile phones for every 10 people. this means they can share information
• in the first half of 2015, 50,000 migrants landed in italy and thousands more have died in the process. later in 2015, hundreds of thousands of people began crossing into europe by land
• the UK receives computer engineers from india and doctors from poland, these are highly skilled people, the countries they are from invested time and money in them, this means the rate of development of an NEE begins to slow
• migrants from poorer countries send home remittances and for Nepal, remittances contribute 25 percent of GNI